WINTER!!
(It's my favorite)
Snow!
Whiteness
Shoveling Snow
Sunny snowy days
Snow Days
Crisp Clean Cold Air
Days getting longer
Christmas
Christmas cards
Bowl games
Big Ten Basketball
Flannel sheets
Hot Cocoa
Sledding
Soup
Piles & piles of blankets
Layers
Hats
Being snowed in
Wrapping up & warming up after being outside
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Saturday, January 15, 2011
The Wedding of Q & U
Friday we had the wedding of Mr. Q to Mrs. U. The entire school was in attendance for the nuptials where Mrs. U promised to always make sure the underwear was clean and Mr. Q vowed to never quit. We had groomsmen and bridesmaids and held a short reception complete with the chicken dance preformed by all. They hope to live happily ever after-never parting as they make words for the rest of time. It was quite cute. I remembered to take a few pictures for once but haven't uploaded them yet.
My crayon thrower had to spend another 2 days picking up the room during PE. Next time, we are adding another classroom. One of the first grader teachers offered her room anytime I needed. He was present for that conversation, knows we're serious, and probably won't be throwing anything any time soon. At least, that's the plan.
The next problem? Boys. Peeing. On each other. Yep. Let me know if you have any creative ideas for that one. Gross. Maybe cleaning the bathroom with a toothbrush would work. I bet I could get the janitors in on that one.
My crayon thrower had to spend another 2 days picking up the room during PE. Next time, we are adding another classroom. One of the first grader teachers offered her room anytime I needed. He was present for that conversation, knows we're serious, and probably won't be throwing anything any time soon. At least, that's the plan.
The next problem? Boys. Peeing. On each other. Yep. Let me know if you have any creative ideas for that one. Gross. Maybe cleaning the bathroom with a toothbrush would work. I bet I could get the janitors in on that one.
Sunday, January 9, 2011
Happy New Year!
We've had Christmas, New Year's, and 1 whole week of school gone by since my last post. We survived back to school week #2 after the 10 day break. By the end of the week, we were starting to get back into the swing of things. I had my mean teacher voice ready and while parts of the day fell apart the whole day didn't. The got outside for recess 3 days which definitely helped, but we'll be back inside this week and the challenges continue. We have LOTS going on this week with the wedding of Q and U and a quilting demonstration for the kids to see.
We were talking in the teacher's lounge this week about creative consequences and I really put that into practice. After throwing kiwi, two boys had to stay back from PE and pick up the entire room. The next day, one of the same kids was throwing pencils and crayons so I made him stay behind and pick up everything all by himself. It might take one more time but I think his throwing days are almost over. There's also this kid who likes to crawl under the tables all the time. I told him the next time he was crawling on the floor, I would just keep him in from recess to crawl under the tables the whole time since he liked it so much. Also might have to actually happen a few times but I think it might fix that problem. Still have a few problems left but we'll try to keep the creative juices flowing.
Learning about money always seems to bring out the best in kids. Last year, it was that all president's were liars. This year, it's even better:
Me: Does anyone know who the man is on the penny?
Student: GOD!
Me: The president is the person who is in charge of our country.
Same Student: Wait! I thought God was in charge of everybody!? Is God on the other money??
There wasn't much explaining by me except to say that we don't know what God looks like so we can't really put him on money. I'll just leave it at that for now. At least somebody knows who is in charge.
We were talking in the teacher's lounge this week about creative consequences and I really put that into practice. After throwing kiwi, two boys had to stay back from PE and pick up the entire room. The next day, one of the same kids was throwing pencils and crayons so I made him stay behind and pick up everything all by himself. It might take one more time but I think his throwing days are almost over. There's also this kid who likes to crawl under the tables all the time. I told him the next time he was crawling on the floor, I would just keep him in from recess to crawl under the tables the whole time since he liked it so much. Also might have to actually happen a few times but I think it might fix that problem. Still have a few problems left but we'll try to keep the creative juices flowing.
Learning about money always seems to bring out the best in kids. Last year, it was that all president's were liars. This year, it's even better:
Me: Does anyone know who the man is on the penny?
Student: GOD!
Me: The president is the person who is in charge of our country.
Same Student: Wait! I thought God was in charge of everybody!? Is God on the other money??
There wasn't much explaining by me except to say that we don't know what God looks like so we can't really put him on money. I'll just leave it at that for now. At least somebody knows who is in charge.
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